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N0.'67,758. Patented Aug. 13, 1867.

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PIERRE J. HARDY, OF NEW-YORK, N.- Y'.'

Letters Patent No. 67,758, dated August 13, 1867. i

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, PIERRE J. HARDY, of-the city and State of New York,have invented, made, and pplied to use a certain new and usefulImprovement in Folding Chair arid Lounge combined; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of thisspecification, wherein Figure 1 is a side view of said chair in positionfor use as such, and

Figure 2 is asection of the same in an unfolded position for use as alounge.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

My said invention consists in a folding chair in which the seat isturned over toward the front, the arms forming the supports for thesame. The back is inclined, and the cushion of said back doubles over toform a pillow for said lounge. By this construction the covering of thechair itself is protected, the some being turned over when the chair isunfolded to form a lounge, thus preventing wear on said covering. In thedrawinga a are the legs; I), the seat-frame; d, the upper frame of thescat hinged at e to the frame 6; fare the arms at the sides of the seatforming supports when the frame d is turned over; 9 is the hack hingedat h to the frame 6, so that it may stand up and be connected to thearmsf by any suitable hook or latch to form the chair, as seen in fig.1, or turned down, as seen in fig. 2, to form the lounge, the partsbeing supported by the ends of the hack coming in contact with ofisetsin the frame b, (see fig. 2.) The lower part of the padding of the backis made double, as seen at It, so that it can be turned up and over theupper portion of the padding to form the pillow of the lounge whenunfolded, as in fig. 2. The surface for the lounge portion is to bepadded in any desired manner or covered with suitable material, andstraps may be used to hold the portion is of the back padding in eitherposition. i I

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A folding chair, in which the back can be turned down, in combinationwith a double-seat frame, hinged at the front, and supported by thearmswh'en turned over to form a lounge, as setforth.

I also claim the padding of the'ha-ck, formed double at k, so as to beturned over for the pillow, in comhination with the folding chair backand double seat hinged and fitted asset forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 23d day ofMarch, A D. 1867.

PIERRE J. HARDY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. SMITH, Geo. D. WALKER.

